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MOWER 0R READER ATTACHMENT. vN0. 361,552.

Patented Apr. 19, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK W. SEIDL AND MICHAEL SEIDL, OF MANITOWOG, WISCONSIN; SAID MICHAELSEIDL ASSIGNOR TO SAID FRANK W. SEIDL.

MOWER OR REAPER ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,552, dated April19, 1887.

Application filed September 9, 1886. Serial No. 213,108. (No model.)

To @173 whom it may concern..-

Be it known that we, FRANK W. SEIDL and MIoHAEL SEIDL, citizens of theUnited States of America, residing at Manitowoc, in the county ofManitowoc and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Mower or Reaper Attachments, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in mowerattachments, having reference more particularly to that class used inmowing peas or other crop on or lying close to the ground; anditconsists in the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement oftheparts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, andparticularlypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of ourinvention. 1 Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a view ofa modification.

In carrying out our invention we employ a board or plank, A, to thefront longitudinal edge of which is connected, by means of clamping-bars a, the tingerbar or head A, of ordinary construction, the samehaving, as usual, guard-fingers a on its outer front edge.

B B are shoes or runners, of preferably wrought or malleable iron orsteel, the forward ends of which are slightly curved upward, as at b,the purpose of which is to effect the lifting or raising of the peasfrom the ground immediately prior to their being acted upon by thecutters. From the'extreme lower forward end of each shoe or runner is anupward rearward-projecting bar, I), which at its extreme upper end iscurved downward in a vertical line, the lower end of which has a smallright-angular flange, 6-, which is secured to the board A by a nuttedbolt, 11, passed through an aperture formed therein and in said board,which will be referred to hereinafter; or the same may be connecteddirect to the finger-bar. p

The lower curved flanged portion, 0, of the shoes or runners have smallsockets or apertures formed in their rear ends, extending inwardlytherein a short distance, wherein are fitted the ends or points of thoseguards, G, of the finger-bar which lie in the same vertical planes,respectively, with the shoes B, by means held in position by means of anut screwed on said bolt. If desired, the rearwardly-extending upper barof each shoe or runner can be extended only to about the point where thesaid bar is bent into its vertical portion, as shown in Fig. 3, and thesame purpose will still be accomplished.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by curving the forward ends ofthe shoes or runners the same are prevented from running into the groundor soil, and at the same time will properly raise or lift the peas, soas to properly present the same to the action of the cut ters. I

WVc do not restrict ourselves to the employment of our invention inconnection with a mower, as the same may with equal advantage beattached to a harvester, reaper, or any other similar machine.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the board or plank and the fingerbar, of the shoesor runners, each having a rearwardly and upwardly ex tended bar bentinto a vertical portion at its rear and provided with a flanged end, anda lower rearwardly-extended bar, both the upper and lower bars beingsecured to the said board or plank by a single nutted bolt passedthrough said flanged ends of the bars, substantially as shown anddescribed, said lower rearwardly-extended bar being integral with thelower curved portion of said shoe, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK W. SEIDL. MICHAEL SEIDL. \Vitnesses:

O. W. BRINK, AUGUST F. DUMKE.

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